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* On site: Edinburgh North East and South East
* Closing: 27th September 2024
* Advertised from: 13th September 2024
* 37 hours per week. Permanent
Role
Want to make a Difference? Help Us Change Lives!
Turning Point Scotland has an exciting opportunity in our Edinburgh Visiting Housing Support Service for a Lead Practitioner.
We believe that in many cases, Homelessness is entirely preventable. Where Homelessness is not or cannot be prevented, the experience should be brief and non-recurring.
About You
We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team. As a Lead Practitioner, the support you provide will always be person-centred, involving people who know the person well, including family and friends, other health and social work professionals, advocacy services, and your fellow team members.
While we welcome experienced practitioners, no previous working experience is needed. You will be provided with all of the training, support, and equipment required to successfully fulfil your role.
About the Role
We aim to help people ‘Get a Home and Keep a Home’.
As a Lead Practitioner, you will:
* Provide 1:1 support and assistance to people using the service in accordance with their support plans and the service aims.
* Support may include, but is not limited to: exploring housing options; bidding on social housing; engaging with landlords/housing officers; assisting with budgeting/maximising income and benefit entitlement; developing independent living skills; attending to household activities and external appointments.
* Be an active member of a supportive team, passionate about the work they do.
About Us
Our Edinburgh Visiting Housing Support Service supports people in the North-East and South-East of Edinburgh who are either homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or have recently moved into settled accommodation following a period of homelessness.
The support we provide is always person-centred, involving people who know the person well, including family and friends, other health and social work professionals, advocacy services, and our own staff members.
Turning Point Scotland offers a salary matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of the start date.
Additional Information
* Hybrid/Remote: Hybrid - Remote with some travel around Scotland
* Closing: 25th September 2024
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced health and social care practice assessor to join our national Learning and Development team.
As a SVQ Assessor/Internal Verifier, you will work remotely within our internal SQA Approved Centre, which was awarded “high confidence” from SQA and “outstanding” feedback in our latest external verifications. You will predominantly support our staff in services in Fife, Forth Valley, the Lothians and the Borders to gain their qualifications in SVQ Level 2, 3 or 4 Social Services and Healthcare. You may also support candidates from other service areas as required.
You’ll lead candidates through their induction onto their qualification, plan assessments, provide learner support and assess holistically. You’ll be passionate about learning and experienced in offering additional learner support to suit a variety of learning styles and abilities. You will have strong organisational and communication skills, and be comfortable and confident in the use of online tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and MS Office.
Working with around 30 candidates a year, we support candidates to complete most of their awards remotely via e-portfolio, but travel is required for direct observations and to support candidates. Flexibility and willingness to travel are essential to the role, which involves a combination of remote home-based working and travel to our services/office locations. Travel to other regions of Scotland may be required from time to time.
You must have a valid UK driving licence and access to your own car.
The post requires you to have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Health and Social Care and a care qualification at SVQ Level 3, or equivalent. Ideally, you will hold an SVQ Assessor and an Internal Verifier award; alternatively, you must have a willingness to work towards these professional qualifications.
We are excited to have the opportunity to recruit a committed, experienced Chair with outstanding strategic planning ability, to lead our charity as we enter the next stage of our evolution and prior to the launch of our new strategy in April 2025.
As Chair of MCR Pathways, you will play a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction of the charity, ensuring the highest standards of charity governance and effective oversight of our operations. Drawing on your substantial non-executive experience, ideally as Chair, you will ensure a cohesive and well-functioning board where diverse views are encouraged to improve consensus decision-making.
You will work closely with board colleagues through quarterly board meetings and working groups and provide support and constructive challenge to the Chief Executive, Sharon McIntyre and her senior team. With a track record of identifying and mitigating risk, you will protect and promote the charity’s excellent reputation, and represent us at external events and with key stakeholders.
We are also looking for three committed individuals to join our Board of Trustees. This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference with MCR, build on your existing skills and potentially discover new ones. We are currently recruiting for Trustees to join our board from December 2024, with a particular interest in candidates with experience in the following areas:
Charitable / Voluntary sector
Charity Finance
Marketing/Communications
We are focused on identifying new trustees who:
Believe strongly that care experienced young people should have the same opportunities to learn and develop as their peers, and are passionate about making this happen.
Are committed to making a meaningful contribution to fulfilling the Board’s strategic, financial and legal responsibilities.
This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference with MCR, build on your existing skills and potentially discover new ones. The most important attributes trustees joining us should have include: a willingness to ask questions, sharing our values of Respect, Person-Centred practice, Integrity and Communication, and a guaranteed time commitment to the role. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
You will work closely with board colleagues through quarterly board meetings and working groups and provide support and constructive challenge to the Chief Executive, Sharon McIntyre and her senior team. With a track record of identifying and mitigating risk, you will protect and promote the charity’s excellent reputation, and represent us at external events and with key stakeholders.
Our Commitment
In return, we offer a comprehensive induction programme including charity trustee training, CPD as a trustee and the opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking, committed and impactful team working to help care experienced young people transform their lives. These positions are a voluntary role in a national third sector organisation that has important stature in Scotland with a growing reach in England.
Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care, and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.
Our Turning Point Scotland Services in Paisley are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.
The Turning Point Scotland Turnaround service delivers focused services that address the complex and interrelated issues of offending behaviour and problematic use of alcohol and other drugs. In 2018, we redesigned our service to also include a Throughcare model.
Since 2007, we have worked alongside councils and social work departments within 22 local authorities including Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Fife, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.
An asset-based approach has been adopted to help increase an individual’s self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence. Self-development and reflection are key to an individual when putting into practice the skills and learning achieved within the service to help sustain their recovery and offending behaviour.
The support we provide is always person-centred, involving people who know the person well, including family and friends, other health and social work professionals, advocacy services, and our own staff members.
No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.
As a Support Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives, e.g., keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health, and wellbeing.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of the start date.
Safe Space supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse through one-to-one counselling, therapeutic group-work, and an outreach service.
This new post forms part of the team at Safe Space, providing a counselling service to Young People (age 12-18 years old) at our base in Dunfermline and any other outreach buildings as identified. The coordinator is responsible for leading, supervising and coordinating a small team of a part-time counsellor and 2 trainee counsellors to work with young people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. The post holder will liaise with all relevant agencies associated with young people.
Within the 15 hours, the post holder must include the team meetings once a month, group supervision and external supervision. Evening client appointments may be required, as may be occasional weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be granted as appropriate. The holiday entitlement will be 5.6 weeks plus 9 public holidays pro-rata.
This post is a 3-year fixed-term contract.
Full job description can be downloaded below.
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